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“Dear Steve, I was sent a summons from Capitol One. Suing me for a $1000 cc balance. Divorced in 2007, custody of 3 young children. I am on a limited income of spousal support, child support, and a small amount of disability benefits. I paid on cc’s awhile until I couldn’t anymore. ex husband was supposed to pay half and ... Read More »

“Dear Steve, My husband and I are separated and filed for bankruptcy. We live in Pennsylvania. Our wages will be garnished and a trustee will handle the money. Our mortgage, car payments and the amount of the repayment plan will be garnished from our wages The attorney has requested that it be split 50/50. My question is, would my husband ... Read More »

“Dear Steve, I am a divorced father of two that is in debt and needs to get out in order to have some normalicy in my life. I owe less than 10k in unsecured debt plus have an outstanding car loan. I want to keep the car loan separate and find a decent solution to get out from under the ... Read More »

Noname “Dear Steve, The email address I gave you is for my husband (who is fine with debt) but unknowingly to him, I am very deep in debt. I am working hard to get out but find I cannot. I really think I need help but don’t know who to turn to and what to do? Can you help with ... Read More »

Wesley “Dear Steve, I am seeing a divorce attorney in the morning. My husband (though a very good person) has not worked for the past several years and on and off for years prior. My income declined over the past 3 years leaving me in tremendous debt and with a huge IRS lien. Our home is about to be foreclosed, ... Read More »

ChevGirl “Dear Steve, Well I am not thinking about death or anything, I am a Christian. I am just having a very difficult time with our finances. The stress is becoming unbearable. My marriage is suffering because of it. Me and my husband work in agriculture, we do not make much and we are $55,000 in debt. I have payments ... Read More »

“Dear Steve, I have a consolidated student loan that sits at $87,000 right now – that amount represents my loan of approx 25,000 and my ex-husbands of approx 55,000 and the rest is interest (it’s been deferred since 1997). I consolidated at a time of emotional distress (new mom getting divorced) and didn’t understand that I had consolidated the amount ... Read More »

“Dear Steve, I came to Texas for employment after 7 months of unemployment. Leaving my wife behind, she refused to come here. My new job came to an end after 4 months and faced 4 months of unemployment, the job market was in Houston so I stayed and was employed again by GE Energy. Still my bills from 11 months ... Read More »

“Dear Steve, I am currently in the middle of getting divorced, and have about $23,000 in credit card debt and $30,000 in student loans. I currently can not afford all the debt payments as well as household expenses and my soon to be ex-husband is a stay at home dad who has been unable to find work. I had contacted ... Read More »

“Dear Steve, My relationship with my husband has hit a new low. I need to get out of here and get a divorce but we have a mortgage together on a house that we owe more on it than it is worth if we could sell it. What do i do? Susan” The Answer Dear Susan, When you get ... Read More »

“Dear Steve, I have a lot of old, old debt from my marriage that ended in divorce 4 years ago. Due to myself having the only full-time income at the time, all of the debt was in my name, so my ex-husband got out of having to deal with it. Anyway, I have been struggling, just to survive since the ... Read More »

“Dear Steve, Filed Chapter 13 only under my name but wife signed agreement to help pay the 13 off. House is now in foreclosure and I want to save my house and I just filed for divorce. She filed Chapter 7 five years ago. My lawyer claims that my Chapter 13 will protect me against the mortgage lenders but my ... Read More »

“Dear Steve, My husband just left me and has let me know very clearly I will not see “a dime” from him. This cuts my household income down from $4600 to less than $2000. We had bought our home 3 years ago and managed to build up about $20,000 in credit card debt. This is in addition to my leased ... Read More »

“Dear Steve, Getting divorced after 25 years. I’m getting 1/2 of her 401k. Because of the home market we will be lucky to get what we owe on the home. I need a down payment for a new home can I cash out my 1/2 of her 401k to put down on a new house. I’m looking at a $25,000 ... Read More »

“Dear Steve, I screwed up. I made investments and lost most of our retirement income. I am also out of work. I am working as a handyman but not making much money. I am however, interviewing for a better job. My wife is hostile and can’t seem to get over that I messed up. I am making my payments (nothing ... Read More »

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